Combined coin-box and advertising-card holder



Mar. 27 1923.

M. EPSTEIN COMBINED COIN BOX AND ADVERTISING CARD HOLDER Filed July 21, 1921 Patented Mar. 27, 1923.

UNITED STATES MAX EPSTEIN, OF I-IOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED COIN-BOX AND ADVERTISING-CARD HOLDER.

Application filed July 21,

T 0 all to ham it may concern Be it known that I, l /Lix EPsrEIN, citizen of the United States, residing at Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Coin-Box and Advertising-Card Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined coin box and advertising card holder intended more particularly for the use of newsdealers to receive coins in payment for newspapers and to display advertisements of other articles sold,

The invention has for an object to provide a simple and inexpensive device of this kind arranged to leave the coins on view in an upper transparent compartment until discharged by the owner into a lower compartment provided with a locked coin drawer which is automatically unlocked when the coins are discharged from the upper compartment.

Another object relates to the provision of a single retaining means for the advertising cards.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the followingdescription and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1. of the drawings is a perspective view of a combined coin box and advertising card holder constructed according to the invention.

Fig. 2. is a vertical sectional view thereof, taken on the plan indicated by the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3. is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating particularly the cover for advertising card holder.

Fig. 4:. is a vertical sectional view at right angles to Fig. 2, this view being taken on the plane indicated by the line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5. is a horizontal section on the line 55 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6. is a horizontal section on the line 66 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 7. is a fragmentary vertical section of a modification.

In constructing my improved device I provide a rectangular box 10 having a cleat 11 fixed to its bottom for mounting 1921. Serial No. 486,397.

the box on a bar projecting from a table, 2

counter or the like.

Upon the top of this box is supported a glass sided receptacle or chamber 12 hav ing an open top in which is mounted a chute or funnel 13 to receive the coins. The box 10 has an inwardly inclined shoulder element 10" at its upper end on which the receptacle 18 sits. Mounted in the chamber 12, just below the mouth of the funnel 13, is a bell 15 which is struck by the coins thrown into the funnel and so caused to ring. This bell is here shown as suspended from a cross bar 16 supported in the lower end of the funnel 13.

The bot-tom of the receptacle 12 is in the form of a hinged double door having two leaves 18 hinged along opposed edges at the sides of the receptacle as at 19 and normally held in closed position by the spring fingers 20 carried by the shouldered upper end of the box 10 and bearing upwardly against the door leaves. Mounted slidably in the bottom of the box 10 is a drawer 22 h.ving a key-controlled locking bolt 23; When the door leaves 18 are swung open the coins fall into this drawer to be removed as desired.

To open the door leaves 18 an oscillatory crank shaft 25 is journaled in suitable bracket elements 26 in the box 10 and has a. pair of links 27 connected at opposite ends t9 its crank portion 28 and to the free edges of the door leaves. The shaft 25 has a squared end 29 to receive a suitable key whereby it may be turned to open the door leaves, this end being located within the confines of the box 10 and being accessible through an opening 30 in the wall of the latter.

I also may provide as indicated in Fig. 7, means whereby the crank shaft 25, when turned to open the door leaves 18, also retracts bolt 23, an arm 32 being shown as fixed on this shaft and having attached there to the upper end of a plunger 33 engaging at its lower end a suitable arm 34 adapted to retract the bolt.

The box 10 is adapted to have a series of advertising cards, such as 35 mounted on the side walls thereof, flange elements 36 being formed on the corners and bottom of the box to engage the bottoms and sides of the cards. To engage and retain the upper edges of the advertising cards I provide a metal strap made up of a series of members 87 hinged to one another as at 38 and adapted to lie upon the inclined shouldered portions 10 of the box, and having bottom flanges 37 projecting over the edges of the cards, this strap be- 7 ing hinged to the box at one end as at 39 and ing card holder will be readily understood from the above description. The coins in payment for the papers are thrown in the chute 13, striking and ringing bell 15, and falling on doors 18. When it is desired to dis-charge the coins lying on doors 18 into the box 10 a suitable key is inserted into the opening to engage the squared end 29 of the shaft 25 and the latter is rotated, swinging its crank portion 28 downward, pulling on links 27 which are attached to the doors. At the same time arm 82 on shaft 25 depresses plunger-33 and releases the bolt 23, permitting drawer 22 to be opened. If it is not desired to open drawer 22 the bolt 23 is relocked by the backward swinging of the doors. r

When it is desired to remove or change the cards. 35 the lock is released and the strap members 37 swung away from the shoulder members 10, being swung back again when a new set of cards is inserted in place, 1

While I have herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of myinvention it is to be understood that various changes and modifications might be made in the construction without departing from the pi'inciple of the invention, and the right is reserved to all such changes and modifications as come within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a device of the class described, a box, a receptacle seated on said box, a pair of hinged doors forming the bottom of said receptacle and the top of said box, and a crank shaft operatively connected to said doors.

2. In a device of the class described, a box, a transparent sided receptacle seated on said box, a pair of hinged doors forming the bottom of said receptacle and the top of the said box,'means for operating said doors,

and a coin drawer slidable in the bottom of said box.

3. In a device of the class described, a box, a transparent sided receptacle seated on said box, a pair of hinged doors forming the bot tom of said receptacle and the top of the said box, means for operating said doors, anda coin drawer slidable in the bottom of said box, a bolt for locking said drawer, and means actuated by the door' operating means for retracting said bolt.

4. In a device of the class described, a box, a receptacle seated on said box, a pair of hinged doors forming the bottom of said receptacle and the top of said box, and a crank shaft operatively connected to said doors, a coin drawer in said box, a bolt for locking said coin drawer, and an operative connection between said crank shaft and bolt, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

MAX EPSTEIN. 

